One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERWe need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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